Daryl Hine Has Died

Sad news. One of Canada's greatest poets, Daryl Hine, has died suddenly, at the age of 76. When Evan Jones and I co-edited Modern Canadian Poets for Carcanet in 2010, we began with very few certitudes. One of them was that Hine would be included. He was a master formalist, perhaps the major North American formalist (alongside Wilbur), a delicious wit, and the former editor of Poetry magazine: a truly cosmopolitan Canadian.